In order to restore the injured special forces, Li Hao ordered a rest in Loulan City for twelve days, and then he set off on the road until many seriously injured special forces could ride camels.

Before getting on the road, Li Hao looked at the map and found out that this time he had actually accelerated their itinerary. He originally followed his itinerary to pass Yumen Pass from Dunhuang, then go through Yizhou to Xizhou, and finally to Tingzhou.

But in order to pursue the horse thieves, they traveled more than a thousand miles between nine days and arrived at the ancient city of Loulan. He could not imagine such speed before, but under the motivation to save people, they achieved it.

Tingzhou is just north of Loulan Ancient City. Just walk more than a thousand miles north from Loulan Ancient City to reach Xizhou, and then travel more than four hundred miles north from Xizhou to Tingzhou.

But Li Hao knew that this road was not as easy as it seemed, because he would enter Gaochang National District before entering Xizhou. If he wanted to bypass Gaochang, he would have to pass the legendary Flame Mountain. If he wanted to bypass the Flame Mountain, he would have to travel more than two thousand miles alone.

Li Hao led everyone to set out and headed north. Four days later, he walked for more than 250 miles, left the desert and entered the Gobi District. After another six days, he traveled for more than 400 miles. After the Gobi District ended, he entered the desert area again. Li Hao took out the map and looked at it. He could not go north anymore, because there was the Gaochang border ahead.

Li Hao was really a little scared about Gaochang, so from that day onwards, he turned around and headed northeastward, and bypassed Gaochang. Every ten miles he would take out his telescope and look around in case he encountered Gaochang's scouts and explore horses.

He turned east for a day. In the afternoon of that day, Li Hao found through the telescope that someone was there twenty miles away, but after only a moment of appearance, he turned around and left. Li Hao suddenly felt his heart raised. The telescope began to keep his hands away, and he observed it every once in a while. When it was almost evening, he found someone riding a horse and wandering twenty miles away for a while and then ran away.

Seeing this, Li Hao's eyebrows gradually frowned and called out loudly: "Peng Hai!"

Peng Hai drove his horse to Li Hao: "Sir, what are your instructions?"

"I saw Gao Chang poking his horse." Li Hao looked at him with a solemn look. Peng Hai was stunned when he heard this, not knowing how to answer.

"Or let's go back to Chang'an." Li Hao suddenly mentioned the old thing again. Peng Hai almost fell off his horse. Is this the bloody man in the Tang Dynasty who brought thirty people to fight against the 500 horse thieves with blood? No matter how you look, they look like a soft guy, and the styles are too different.

Lu Yun, who was standing beside him, frowned and said, "I've been here, how can I go back?"

Li Yuanzhong also spoke: "Psychic, don't disturb the morale of the army."

Li Hao frowned and said, "This place is only a hundred miles away from Gaochang. If the Gaochang army attacks, what should we do?"

Peng Hai thought for a while and said, "Sir, we can send horse scouts to investigate in front. Once we find Gaochang attack, we will hit the enemy head-on when we encounter a small group of enemies, and we will turn our heads and run away when we encounter a large group of people. We have few people and are all cavalrymen. It is impossible for them to catch up with us."

Li Hao frowned and thought for a long time, nodded and said, "That's all. If Gaochang really sends a large army to attack, it would be clear that he would break up. I can submit the court and ask for reinforcements."

"So, sir, what we need to do now is to be alert day and night, be careful."

Li Hao was silent for a long time after hearing this, and sighed helplessly: "I haven't arrived in Tingzhou yet, I'm just so upset. If I arrived in Tingzhou, I still might have lived a life. Oh... why is my life so miserable..."

Peng Hai was too lazy to listen to his complaints anymore, so he returned to the rear and began to appoint a scout to guard within twenty miles.

As dusk approached, Li Hao ordered the army to camp and build a pot to make rice. That night, he ordered the patrol of the guards twice, and then asked the Huotou Army to come with two copper basins, one to sleep on his own, and the other to sleep on Lu Yun. At night, the scouts and horses could only patrol ten miles apart. If it was farther, it would be easy to get lost in the dark desert. Ten miles seemed quite far, but Li Hao knew that this was not a very safe distance, so he still had to be careful, after all, he was still very afraid of death.

As night fell, the soldiers and soldiers went to the camp to rest after dinner. The moon and a half were covered by white clouds, and some light was sprinkled weakly. The vast desert seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze.

At the third update, the clouds in the sky gradually grew, blocking the moonlight layer by layer, and the vast desert fell into darkness again.

More than an hour later, it was almost the night before. This was also the time when people were sleeping the most. A huge shadow appeared in the dark desert, like a giant beast crawling rapidly, heading straight to the direction where Li Hao and his camp were.

Seven scouts sent by Peng Hai were patrolling a sand dune ten miles away in the camp. Suddenly, a sore throat and a feather arrow had pierced his throat. He fell to the ground and struggled weakly for a few times, and then there was no movement.

A man in a black night outfit slowly climbed the sand dune and looked at the camp of the right guard. His mouth was raised lightly, revealing a sinister smile.

At the same time, in other places, all the Right Guard scouts were assassinated. These assassinators were all wearing night clothes and hiking, lurking in the dark night. Therefore, the Right Guard scouts could not find them at all, just as they responded to the saying that it was easy to avoid hidden arrows and could not prevent them.

After a long time, a large group of horse thieves arrived, densely packed with more than a thousand people. The assassination hurried forward and kneeled down to greet him: "General, all the enemy scouts have been killed."

The leader of the man wearing a scarlet cloak snorted coldly: "Please pay attention to the words, we are now horse thieves."

The assassination hurriedly changed his words: "Yes, villains deserve to die, the boss!"

"Tell me the order..." The leader said in a deep voice, "Slowly approach the enemy camp, Zhang Gao, bring five hundred people to the west, attack me from the front and back, kill everyone before robbing the property."

"Yes!" A middle-aged man took the order and left the brigade with five hundred people and headed northwest.

The leader led a large group of people to approach Li Hao's military camp slowly. The reason why they were so slow was to approach quietly and catch the other party off guard. This was a common trick to attack the enemy camp at night.

However, usually attacking enemy camps at night is to attack more with fewer attacks. After all, the fewer people, the less likely they are to be exposed. If you use a thousand people to attack, there are really a lot of people like this. Fortunately, it is a desert here and the ground has poor earthquake transmission ability. If it is on the land, so many horses will be discovered even if they are not running wildly.

This leader decided to use so many people to attack the desert terrain at night, but he never expected that Li Hao was extremely alert now because he discovered their scouts during the day. Even if he sleeps, he would sleep with a copper basin. What is the use of a copper basin? In fact, it is similar to a stethoscope. As long as the ground vibrates slightly and resonates through the copper basin, it can produce a louder sound. The bigger the copper basin, the better the effect.

Li Hao and Lu Yun were sleeping in the same tent. Their copper basin made a slight sound. Although the sound was very small, their ears were pressed against the copper basin, and it was hard to hear them. The two woke up at the same time, looked at each other and stood up together and shouted: "Enemy attack!"

"Drip filter filter--" A crisp whistle in Li Hao's tent spread for three or four miles. Everyone rushed out of the camp with their weapons when they heard the sound. The right guards went on horseback, and twenty-eight special forces quickly protected the female family behind them.

"Enemy attacks, everyone enters combat preparations!" Li Hao shouted after walking out of the camp, then raised his telescope and looked towards the north. With just one look, he was shocked and blurted out, "Oh Cao!"

Lu Yun hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"Thousands of horse thieves!" Li Hao exclaimed, and suddenly shook his head, "No, these are not horse thieves. When they rode their horses, they were neat and orderly, and they looked more like an army! Could it be Gaochang's army?"

Lu Yun's face changed and he frowned and asked, "Is that a fight or a run?"

Li Hao turned his head and looked at Peng Hai, and asked with a solemn face: "Do you have confidence if you fight five hundred and one thousand?"

Peng Hai said proudly: "My Tang cavalry is invincible in the world!"

"Okay!" Li Hao suddenly became bold and said coldly, "Everyone obeys the order and extinguish half of the brazier in the camp!"

With a command from Li Hao, half of the braziers in the camp were extinguished, and the entire camp became dim and could barely see the objects. Li Hao looked at the enemy with a telescope. The telescope distance measurement showed that the enemy was still four thousand meters away, which was eight miles away. And seeing them still moving slowly, it seemed that they did not notice the movements on their side. No wonder they did not have night vision telescopes. Moreover, the warning signal just now was Li Hao's whistle, with a sharp whistle and poor transmission ability. He should not be able to hear it six miles away.

"If you dare to attack us, I'll ask you to get into the trap." Li Hao snorted coldly and waved, "Everyone follows me and go behind the sand dunes."

There are sand dunes more than one mile southeast of their camp. Relying on sand dunes to set up camp can effectively resist the wind and sand blowing from the southeast wind. This is common sense for desert marching. Li Hao is preparing to hide behind the sand dunes to attack the enemy.

As soon as they crossed the dune, Li Hao suddenly realized something was wrong. He picked up the telescope and looked into the distance. He was shocked again. He saw another man approaching from the west, eight miles away. He hurriedly climbed to the top of the dune alone and watched around, fearing that there were other people and horses. After confirming that there were only these two horses, Li Hao walked down the dune, pointed to the dark night, and said, "There are also a man coming to us at Bali in the west, about five hundred people. If I guess correctly, I should be in the same group of people from the north."

Peng Hai was shocked when he heard this: "Are they preparing to attack the two armies?"

"Yes, they are very smart." Li Hao said, "Now it seems that they have a total of 1,500 people. Since they are divided into forces, we will defeat each one and deal with the five hundred people in the west first. What do General Peng think?"

"Yes." Peng Hai nodded.

"Then let's attack." Li Hao said, "try not to let the thousand-man team in the north discover it."

Li Hao and the others rushed west quickly, walked five miles quickly, and began to slow down. At this time, the two sides were less than two miles away. Li Hao ordered the soldiers to line up in place, prepare bows and wait for attack.

The five hundred people led by Zhang Gao had not noticed the movement ahead yet, and continued to move forward. The two men were only less than two hundred meters apart. Li Haochen shouted: "Cheep!"

Five hundred right guards raised their bows together and shot them into the sky forty-five degrees. With the help of the southeast wind, the arrows fell into the local crowd like heavy rain. The sound of people rushing to the horses suddenly came from the opposite side. Zhang Gao, the leader, was shocked and quickly ordered: "The archer fought back!"

Hearing this order, Li Hao smiled coldly and whistled suddenly. All the cavalrymen put away their bows and arrows and rushed out.
Chapter completed!